I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 38 I support my villain

"It is indeed a delicacy from heaven!" Brutner was shocked.

"It's really delicious!" his assistant Martin praised.

Then, without any reluctance, everyone took plates filled with durians and showed off around the huge glasses!

Xia Qingdai had been eating three large plates of durian before she felt a little tired of it, so she put the plate, knife and fork on the coffee table.

Owen followed suit, followed by three guests.

"Aren't you going to eat it? Then seal the mouth of the glass with a piece of oilcloth and put it outside." Xia Qingdai told Owen how to store it.

Nowadays, it is snowing everywhere outside, and the temperature is below minus 5 degrees Celsius. Naturally, it is a big refrigerator, and the durians will not go bad even if they are kept for a few days.

Owen immediately ordered his servants to drag a small trailer over to handle it, and allowed everyone in the castle to cut a bowl and have a taste.

Xia Qingdai followed behind: "There are also the two families living on the farm, as well as Bob Kahn and Yang Samuel's family."

"Okay, I'll make the arrangements." Owen immediately ordered someone to do it.

Basically, he would not disobey Xia Qingdai's orders, but he would always try his best to do whatever she said.

The five families living within Xia Qingdai's sight, including the widow Mrs. John and her son, who are now servants in Owen Castle, are all regarded by Xia Qingdai as their own little people.

When there are good things, she also wants to feed them.

Keeping these little people is cheaper than raising a hamster!
  Therefore, starvation must not happen on the territory she protected. For this reason, she even threw a few potatoes into the castle.

Since potatoes were brought to Europe from the Americas, they have quickly won the hearts of native farmers due to their high yields.

Potatoes have now become the staple food of most civilians here, and the Scots are particularly dependent on potatoes.

The matter of distributing potatoes is naturally left to the servants of Fucui Villa.

Lim will send people to go door-to-door to inform people, and then ask everyone to pick up the bags themselves.

People in other places are starving this year, but only the tenants of Fukui Villa can still maintain two meals a day without worrying about starvation, let alone starving to death, and their mental outlook is getting better day by day.

Those tenants who live far away and are not under Xia Qingdai's nose do not always get good food, so don't be too envious of those households who live close by.

Under Xia Qingdai's daily feeding, the gods in everyone's hearts naturally changed quietly.

Pastor Austin has noticed changes in the beliefs of the villagers near Faicheng Villa. Everyone is less religious when they say mass.

However, he is the one who has received the most help from Fukui Villa, so he will never say a word about the changes during this period.

Pastor Austin sometimes didn't understand why Mr. Owen thought so highly of him that he would give him fruits and food sent by God again and again.

This has greatly improved their family's originally relatively tight situation. After all, after the snow disaster, the most expensive thing is food.

Until now, the prices of wheat, flour, and potatoes have not dropped, and people who starve to death are buried in the church cemetery every day.

They didn't even have the money to erect a monument, so they could just bury it hastily. If a whole family starved to death, it would be a good idea to dig a grave and bury them all.

This kind of cruel thing did not happen in Xia Qingdai's glass tank, so she could not see it.

During this period of time, she was busy preparing for the spring exams. Apart from following Owen for a casual walk around the village on Christmas Eve, she never had the time to go out on a cold day.

There is no fireplace incense when the northwest wind blows!
  No matter how beautiful the snow is, it’s not surprising to see it every day. After eating the durian, several guests gathered around the fireplace and chatted.

Now everyone is no longer afraid of the smell lingering in the living room, they just feel that the whole house is filled with fruity fragrance.

The guests chatted and read, while Owen and Xia Qingdai came to the study room to take English classes.

The spring exam only tests foreign languages ​​and three elective subjects, but not Chinese and mathematics. Therefore, Xia Qingdai did not study Chinese or mathematics these days. She mainly took English and physics classes in the castle.

It's a pity that Gauss is still an infantile version. If Xia Qingdai met Gauss ten years later, there would be god-level teachers in chemistry and physics.

After half an hour of English class, the maid came to announce that breakfast was ready.

Xia Qingdai asked Owen to go alone, and she stayed in the study to continue reading English.

For her, the breakfast at the castle is a midnight snack. She just had a meal of durian, so she is not hungry at the moment.

With the spring exam approaching, Xia Qingdai did not disrupt her biological clock too much. When it was almost twelve o'clock, she went upstairs to her room to get ready for bed.

The outer layer of the curtains in this room has been replaced with light-blocking fabric, and a tailor in the town was hired to make them quickly. The inner layer is still the original velvet cloth.

Xia Qingdai bought the light-blocking curtains from Modern Online. She bought a 1.6*1.5 meter piece of fabric and paid yuan for free shipping.

Such a piece of curtain cloth, which in modern times is only enough to cover the window of her room, is equivalent to being enlarged countless times when brought to the castle. It is enough to change the curtains of several rooms in the castle that are frequently used daily.

After adding a layer of light-blocking curtains, when the curtains are drawn during the day, it will be the same as at night. Xia Qingdai can sleep comfortably in the dark without fear of disrupting her biological clock.

There was already a mechanical alarm clock in England at the end of the 18th century, but because it was only invented two years ago, it was a very fashionable product and was not easy to see in the countryside.

Naturally, there is no such thing in Owen's newly-taken castle.

But it doesn't matter, every time Xia Qingdai shrinks in, she takes her phone into the castle as an alarm clock.

Putting your mobile phone here is equivalent to the size of a single wardrobe, which is not an exaggeration.

Speaking of clocks, many people may subconsciously think that they are products after the Industrial Revolution and were first launched in the West.

But in fact, it is not the case. Clocks were invented by Su Song, the Prime Minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, our ancestor in China. The water transport instrument platform he presided over the construction can tell the time and clock, and its structure is very similar to modern clocks.

After the twelfth century, Chinese clock technology was introduced to Europe through trade.

Of course, now in the eighteenth century, China is under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they are still dreaming of being self-sufficient and ascending to the throne. Regarding the technology of clocks and watches, Britain, which took the lead in the industrial revolution, is already better than its predecessors.

When Xia Qingdai found this information on CNKI, she felt quite sad.

After briefly washing up in the bathroom, Xia Qingdai blew out all the candles and got into bed to sleep.

A minute later, the screen of the mobile phone that she had just turned on automatically turned off, and the whole room suddenly fell into darkness.

In the castle, your mobile phone can not only be used as an alarm clock and night light, but it can also be used to take pictures of test papers for reference.

When Owen saw the picture on his phone for the first time, he was stunned.

This is the artifact of heaven!
  Xia Qingdai originally wanted to use her mobile phone to take some videos of the little people, but for some reason, she couldn't take pictures of the little people she could see with the naked eye, only the empty castle.

So this idea had to be given up.

(End of this chapter)